Tag: Fossils

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 2, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
abrupt appearance, archeopteryx, artifact hypothesis, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous, Casey Luskin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary discontinuities, evolutionary gradualism, flying insects, fossil forgeries, Fossil Record, fossil record explosions, Fossils, Günter Bechly, human evolution, Neo-Darwinism, origin of flowering plants, paleontology, Piltdown man, Precambrian, Richard Dawkins, sudden appearance, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Theory of Evolution, transitional forms, transitional fossils}

Debunked Transitional Fossils Just the Tip of the Iceberg

_{Günter Bechly

March 2, 2022

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future Casey Luskin hosts distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly to discuss Bechly’s essay in the recent Harvest House anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos. Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution, with each transitional step almost too modest to notice. Does the fossil record suggest such a pattern? Quite the opposite, Bechly says. Instead the pattern of the fossil record is consistently one of sudden appearance, and evolutionists have yet to successfully construct a single robustly populated series of gradually transitioning fossils that move chronologically from one form to a distinctly different Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 4, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
asexual reproduction, bilateral, biomineralized skeleton, Cambrian fossils, Cnidarians, comb jellies, Darwinism, Ediacaran, Evolution, fossil taxonomy, Fossils, jelly fish, kimberella, lophophora, lophophorate, metazoan, microbial reefs, mollusks, Namacalathus, Precambrian, Precambrian fossils, Precambrian sponges, radial symmetry, Richard Dawkins, small shelly fauna, sudden appearance}

A Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

_{Günter Bechly

January 4, 2021

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, German paleontologist Günter Bechly explains why the Precambrian fossil Namacalathus fails as a transitional precursor to the Cambrian explosion. Darwinists want to find transitional precursors to the Cambrian animals to minimize how poorly the Cambrian explosion fits with Darwinism’s story of a gradual evolutionary development. Dr. Bechly gives other examples of such efforts as well and shows how each fails. As he says, the more we learn about the Cambrian and Precambrian, the more dramatic the Cambrian explosion appears and the poorer it fits with modern evolutionary theory. As he also notes, the points he makes in this episode have been made by mainstream evolutionary paleontologists. He differs only in stepping back from the larger pattern Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 27, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Amber, Curator, Darwinism, Entomology, Family, Fossils, Günter Bechly, Intelligent Design, Memory Hole, Notability, Orwellian, Paleoentomology, paleontology, scientific suppression, Species, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia Throws Günter Bechly Down the Orwellian Memory Hole

_{Günter Bechly

November 27, 2017}

On this episode of ID The Future, Robert Crowther talks with paleontologist Dr. Günter Bechly about his entry on Wikipedia which was created in 2012 and suspiciously disappeared in 2015 when he started supporting Intelligent Design. An eminent paleontologist, Bechly was curator of the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany and had numerous species as well as even a family named after him, a high honor in the field. Crowther and Bechly go over the specious reasons given by Wikipedia for Bechly’s deletion, revealing the ideological and authoritarian nature of some the editors at Wikipedia.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 13, 2014

Tagged
__edited, common descent, Fossils, Science and Human Origins}

On Human Origins: What the Fossils Tell Us, pt. 4

_{Casey Luskin

December 13, 2014}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear more of Casey Luskin’s recent talk at a recent Science and Human Origins conference. Casey discusses why the fossil evidence doesn’t support the claim that humans evolved from ape-like precursors.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 11, 2014

Tagged
__edited, common descent, Fossils, Science and Human Origins}

On Human Origins: What the Fossils Tell Us, pt. 3

_{Casey Luskin

December 11, 2014}

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 9, 2014

Tagged
__edited, common descent, Fossils, Science and Human Origins}

On Human Origins: What the Fossils Tell Us, pt. 2

_{Casey Luskin

December 9, 2014}

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 6, 2014

Tagged
__edited, common descent, Fossils, Science and Human Origins}

On Human Origins: What the Fossils Tell Us

_{Casey Luskin

December 6, 2014}

On this episode of ID the Future, hear a clip of Casey Luskin speaking at a recent Science and Human Origins conference. Casey discusses why the fossil evidence doesn’t support the claim that humans evolved from ape-like precursors.

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 4, 2011

Tagged
__edited, Fossils, Hoatzin}

An Ocean Apart: New Fossils Challenge Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin

November 4, 2011}

On this episode of ID the Future, David Boze interviews Casey Luskin about recently discovered fossils that have inspired Darwinists to develop wild and speculative explanations.

Fossils of the Hoatzin bird have previously been found exclusively in South America, but were recently uncovered in Africa — clear on the other side of the Atlantic. As Darwinists struggle to fit the discovery of these fossils into their doctrine of common descent, it becomes apparent that regardless of what new evidence suggests, they will refuse to allow common ancestry to be challenged. Listen in as Boze and Luskin reveal the tendency of Darwinists to pursue PR campaigns rather than scientific inquiry.